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Protection Magic

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

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Times Brought

515

Decks Running

219

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Protection Magic

Instant

Put a shield counter on each of up to three target creatures. (If a creature with a shield counter would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mikio Masuda

Final zone distribution

101 instances

7.9%

Library

9.9%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

1.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

515 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

515

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=39) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=296).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=31).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

17%

57%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 0% (0 / 54 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.